janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介課件

1、janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介She has the exquisite touch which renders She has the exquisite touch which renders ordinary commonplace things and ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiments.description an

2、d the sentiments.Sir Walter ScottSir Walter Scottjaneausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介Jane Austen was born on 16 December, 1775, at the rectory in the village of Steventon, near Basingstoke, in Hampshire. The seventh of eight children of the Reverend George Austen and his wife, Cassandra.Jane was educated

3、mainly at home and never lived apart from her family. She had a happy childhood amongst all her brothers and the other boys who lodged with the family and whom Mr Austen tutored. From her older sister, Cassandra, she was inseparable. To amuse themselves, the children wrote and performed plays and ch

4、arades, and even as a little girl Jane was encouraged to write. The reading that she did of the books in her fathers extensive library provided material for the short satirical sketches she wrote as a girl. At the age of 14 ,Jane wrote her first novel, Love and Friendship and then A History of Engla

5、nd by a partial, prejudiced and ignorant Historian, together with other very amusing juvenilia. In her early twenties Jane Austen wrote the novels that were later to be re-worked and published as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey. She also began a novel called The Watso

6、ns which was never completed. janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介Sense and Sensibility is a novel which was published in 1811. It was the first of Austens novels to be published, under the pseudonym “A Lady”.The story concerns two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (Elinor representing sense and Marianne sensibility

7、). Along with their mother and younger sister Margaret, they are left impoverished after the death of their father, and the family is forced to move to a country cottage, offered to them by a generous relative. Elinor forms an attachment to the gentle and courteous Edward Ferrars, unaware that he is

8、 already secretly engaged. After their move, Marianne meets Willoughby, a dashing young man who leads her into undisciplined behaviour, so that she ignores the attentions of the faithful (but older) Colonel Brandon. The contrast between the sisters characters is eventually resolved as both find love

9、 and lasting happiness.janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austens novels and one of the first romantic comedies in the history of the novel. The book is her second published novel. Its manuscript was initially written between 1796 and 1797 in Steventon, Hampshire, where Au

10、sten lived in the rectory. Austen originally called the story First Impressions, but it was never published under that title; instead, she made extensive revisions to the manuscript, then retitled and eventually published it as Pride and Prejudice.janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介Thomas Langlois Lefroy (8 January 177

11、6 4 May 1869) was an Irish-Huguenot（愛(ài)（愛(ài)爾蘭胡格諾派）爾蘭胡格諾派）politician and judge. He served as an MP for the constituency of Dublin University（都柏林大（都柏林大學(xué)）學(xué)） 18301841, Privy Councillor of Ireland(愛(ài)愛(ài)爾蘭樞密院大臣爾蘭樞密院大臣) 18351869 and Lord Chief Justice of Ireland（愛(ài)爾蘭首席大法官）（愛(ài)爾蘭首席大法官） 18521866.Tom Lefroys first daug

12、hter was named Jane Christmas Lefroy. Scholars debate the derivation of this name. Some believe that the name Jane was derived from Lady Jane Paul (Toms mother-in-law). Others believe the name referred to Jane Austen. That is what is implied in the 2007 film Becoming Jane.janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介The year is

13、1795 and young Jane Austen is a feisty 20-year-old and emerging writer who already sees a world beyond class and commerce, beyond pride and prejudice, and dreams of doing what was then nearly unthinkable - marrying for love. Naturally, her parents are searching for a wealthy, well-appointed husband

14、to assure their daughters future social standing. They are eyeing Mr. Wisely, nephew to the very formidable, not to mention very rich, local aristocrat Lady Gresham, as a prospective match. But when Jane meets the roguish and decidedly non-aristocratic Tom Lefroy, sparks soon fly along with the shar

15、p repartee. His intellect and arrogance raise her ire - then knock her head over heels. Now, the couple, whose flirtation flies in the face of the sense and sensibility of the age, is faced with a terrible dilemma. If they attempt to marry, they will risk everything that matters - family, friends an

16、d fortune. janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介janeausten的生平簡(jiǎn)介The “cottage” in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight years of her life, now Jane Austens House Museum.Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral(溫切溫切斯特大教堂斯特大教堂). ).The “cottage” in Chawton where Jane Austen lived during the last eight yea

17、rs of her life, now Jane Austens House Museum.Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral(溫切溫切斯特大教堂斯特大教堂). ).Early in 1816, Jane Austen began to feel unwell. She ignored her illness at first and continued to work and to participate in the usual round of family activities. By the middle of that year, her decline was unmistakable to Austen and to her family, and Austens physical condition began a long, slow, and irregular deterioration culminating in her death the following year. The majority of Austen biographe